Vietnam reopens schools after year of closure due to Covid-19 pandemic

*Vaccination against COVID-19 for children aged 12-17 in Binh Duong*

About 17 million Vietnamese students and students went to school for the first time on February 7 after nearly a year of interruption of face-to-face learning due to restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, as the Southeast Asian country prepares to fully reopen exclusively for international tourists.

Vietnam began lifting its strict travel restrictions launched last October because of the coronavirus pandemic, but most schoolchildren and students have continued to study online since early 2021 because of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks here.

From February 7, after the Lunar New Year holiday, students from grade 7 to college and university levels across the country returned to school, according to the Government Electronic Newspaper. The official online website of the Government of Vietnam also said that 60 out of 63 provinces and cities planned to send preschool and primary school students back to school this month.

Schools in the capital Hanoi began to reopen from February 8, according to the state-controlled media, with preventive measures such as checking body temperature and applying procedures in case a positive case is detected.

Authorities in Vietnam in recent days also announced plans to start giving COVID vaccines to children aged 5 to 12 years old.

In a statement released on February 5, the Vietnamese government said it intends to buy 21.9 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children of the above age group.

About 77% of Vietnam’s approximately 98 million people have received at least two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to aggregated data by VnExpress, and the government is working on a goal of a third injection for all adults by the end of March, the time is also the proposed time to fully open the door to international tourists to enter Vietnam.

The “Spring 2022” COVID vaccine vaccination campaign started on January 29, the first day of the Lunar New Year holiday. Doctors and nurses were ordered to work through Tet until the end of March with the spirit of “going every alley, knocking door-to-door, checking every person” in order to accomplish their assigned goals.

After the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism proposed to fully open the door to international tourists from March 31, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested that this policy be implemented before the end of next month. Previously, on January 29, Chinh ordered the ministries to allow international airlines to carry out flights to bring Vietnamese people home.

Vietnam contained the spread of the pandemic for much of 2020 before the Delta variant spiked infections last year. The Ministry of Health said COVID-19 prevention is the industry’s top priority this year. As of February 7, the number of infections in Vietnam is more than 2.3 million with the number of deaths exceeding 38,400.

Thoibao.de (Translated)

Source: https://www.voatiengviet.com/a/viet-nam-tai-mo-cua-truong-hoc-sau-mot-nam-dong-cua-vi-dai-dich/6430959.html

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